2024 album, Requiem for Dead Dogs …
I write, play and record music as part of a collective under the name The Unattached. It’s folk music about history, or the present, sometimes the future. Future Folk Music, I think. The others are proper musicians: Darren Hayman, Ian Button, Gwenifer Raymond, John McGrath, Holly Rogers. They know what they’re doing, and have about a hundred albums between them.
Our first album, Songs for the Prophets, was a single 77-minute track incorporating a sequence of folk songs about prophets of the seventeenth century, recorded mostly in locations throughout England. It asked: what happens when music, history and place are woven into the same cloth? It wasn’t historical music, but the present viewed through the eyes of history. It was released on WIAIWYA in 2019.
Our second album, Requiem for Dead Dogs, was released on Gare du Nord in 2024.
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